Mode 1 - Virtual Mode by Piers Anthony

Author:Piers Anthony [Anthony, Piers]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Fantasy Fiction, Kings and Rulers, Darius (Fictitious Character) - Fiction, Kings - Fiction, Colene (Fictitious Character), Kings, Darius (Fictitious Character), Colene (Fictitious Character) - Fiction
ISBN: 9780586213469
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1991-01-14T06:00:00+00:00

erinarian, a researcher working with dolphins and other ma -- rine life, a friend of those I admire. I want to be someone who would die for her cause. I want to be creative. I want to be a starving artist. I want always to be traveling, never in one place for long. I want to be defending everyone's rights,

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especially animals and women. I want to be free, inspiring, compassionate. I want to be everything. I want to live under a night sky with someone I love intensely, and never have to move. To sit and gaze at the heavens with someone. I want never to be tied down or held back as I am now. Above all, I want to be free. I want it to be nighttime forever."

/ share your feeling. But what you have thought is not all. His thought was sympathetic.

She laughed. "No, that's not all! It's not even consistent. I want never to have to stay in one place and never to have to move. I want total freedom and total irresponsibility and total dedication. I want everything and nothing, all at the same time. I know it doesn't make any sense, but this isn't sense, this is desire. So does it make any sense to you, or would it, if you were a girl?"

/ am a stallion, neither human nor female, and I have similar desires. You express them better than I could formu -- late them.

She felt another surge of the continuing thrill of being with him, of telling him her secret heart and being understood. She was talking, but her mind was carrying harmonics that made her whole feeling come across, so much greater than mere words could ever convey. His mind was sending back background washes and waves of understanding and support, so she knew he meant it.

Telepathy: it was like being in a hot tub together, their bodies dissolved away and their minds sharing the essence.

"Do you have religion, Seqiro?"

There was a quick exploration of the concept she lifted to the surface. No.

"Maybe that's better. I don't know whether I have religion either. I feel that it's better for me to make my own decisions about religion than to have my beliefs dictated to me. I hate people who go to church just so they can feel better about doing other things that they know are bad. I think I believe more in nature than in God. I can see nature, and feel and be a part of it.

God is more of a closed case. I like to feel a little different from other people and have a different view of things. That's part of the reason I'm not too wild about school. Everyone is expected to be the same. It leaves no room for freedom of thought. If you're not like everyone else, you

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stand out and are not tolerated. I want to break away from this everybody-must-be-the-same type of society. Routine is awful. To do the same thing every day, every week, is torture.

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